Tagliamento

The Tagliamento from the bridge at Pinzano al Tagliamento (PN)

The Tagliamento [ taʎ a'mento ː ] ( medieval German: Dülmende ) in Friuli, northern Italy, is the most important of the last wild rivers in the Alps. It is 170 km long, originates at Mauria in the province of Belluno and flows between Bibione and Lignano Sabbiadoro in the Adriatic Sea.

Ecological Significance

The Tagliamento, a so-called Torrente, is ( to about Latisana ) still largely unregulated until well into the plane into the dynamic processes of the river are still running from spacious and undisturbed and determine the topography. Extensive gravel surfaces, vegetated islands and floodplain forests form a large contiguous ecosystem of about 150 km2, which is unique in Europe. At least since the 1990s, it is therefore examined as a reference ecosystem intensive scientific. For some time, the inclusion in the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas has been demanded by the Fauna-Flora -Habitat Directive of the EU on this site, including recognition as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve is under discussion.

The area is however threatened by construction, the regional government is planning in the context of flood protection in Spilimbergo three up to 8.5 km2 large retention basins within the Auenkorridors than hard structures, are expected by the numerous negative effects on the ecosystem and the groundwater level. Against the going back to old planning project is regional, but also international opposition, such as the WWF, the non-governmental organization International Commission for Alpine Protection Agitated ( CIPRA ) and placed by the side of the research, Reinhold Messner as an MEP of the Green Party a request to the European Commission. The surrounding communities are against the project, fearing a negative impact on the increasing (natural) tourism. Until today (Oct. 2011), the project has not started yet, despite far more advanced planning.

A planned massive gravel mining in Cimano, Spilimbergo a few kilometers upstream, could be prevented in 2011 after public protests and concerns of relevant regional Public Works Authority ' di Bacino, the company withdrew his project.

Due to the Italian Highway Code of the Tagliamento was a destination for many off-road drivers. In 2004, this led to the first locks of the river bed for unauthorized vehicular traffic. This block is ignored by several drivers.

The Tagliamento in the literature

The Italian film director, poet and journalist Pier Paolo Pasolini spent the years during the Second World War in Casarsa della Delizia close to the Tagliamento. During this time he wrote there his first novels Amado Mio and Atti impuri which were only published posthumously in 1982. Much of the action of Amado Mio are located on the banks of the Tagliamento, where the boys of the surrounding villages make for a swim, "The bending of the Tagliamento was like a hornet's nest: In a hundred different colors, the pants and the scarves of the Young flashed in the sun. Nothing stood still: Even the air shimmered above the gravel board, the charred and barked acacia moving with the same vividness as the boys. Both ... the shore and the sand bar across the river course were a single battlefield, a single outcry. "

Gallery

The Tagliamento pours in Gemona del Friuli from the Alps into the plain

Road bridge over the Tagliamento between the village and Braulins Gemona del Friuli